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Edwin M. Stanton School | |
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| Location | Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
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| Coordinates | 30°19′56″N81°39′48″W / 30.33222°N 81.66333°W Coordinates: 30°19′56″N81°39′48″W / 30.33222°N 81.66333°W |
| Built | 1917 |
| Architect | Mellen C. Greeley |
| Architectural style | Masonry Vernacular |
| NRHP reference # | 83001446 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 29, 1983 |
The Edwin M. Stanton School served African American students after the American Civil War and emancipation. It was named for Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War during most of the American Civil War under U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. The school's historic 1917 school building replaced earlier school buildings destroyed by fire and one deemed unsafe. The school building is in Jacksonville, Florida at 521 West Ashley Street. On September 29, 1983, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South. The Civil War is the most studied and written about episode in U.S. history. Primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people, war broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina shortly after Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated as the President of the United States. The loyalists of the Union in the North proclaimed support for the Constitution. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States in the South, who advocated for states' rights to uphold slavery.
The Secretary of War was a member of the United States President's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "Secretary at War" or "Secretary of War", had been appointed to serve the Congress of the Confederation under the Articles of Confederation between 1781 and 1789. Benjamin Lincoln and later Henry Knox held the position. When Washington was inaugurated as the first president under the Constitution, he appointed Knox to continue serving as Secretary of War.
Abraham Thomas Lincoln was an American statesman, politician, and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy.
The modern successor of this school is Stanton College Preparatory School, also in Jacksonville.
Stanton College Preparatory School is an academically renowned public high school in Jacksonville, Florida. The school's history dates to the 1860s when it was begun as an elementary school serving the African-American population under the then-segregated education system. It now serves secondary students within the Duval County Public Schools of Duval County, Florida. The school offers special curricula which include Honors courses, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate courses. In 2005, the Advanced Placement Report to the Nation officially recognized Stanton College Preparatory School as the best large size high school for Advanced Placement European History and Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition in the world.
